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Bitcoin inbound bridge to ripple using blockchain.info API

Ripple Gateway Bridge | BTC / XRP

This application is an inbound bridge for automatically selling XRP for BTC at a discount. It listens to the blockchain and converts BTC to XRP upon two confirmations of the payment. The application relies on the Ripple Gateway and Ripple REST API.

Features:

• Polls the specified wallet every minute via Blockchain.info's REST API
• Monitors Ripple hot wallet for balance via the Ripple REST API
• Upon transaction, application will send out an email notification with amount and effective exchange rate
• This light weight Node.js app is fully configurable

Dependencies

• Node.js

  • Install ripple-gateway v3.4.4 and other dependencies

• Postgres

  • The easiest way to get started with Postgres is by launching a free database hosted by Heroku

      cd node_modules/ripple-gateway
    

  • Follow these instructions to configure ripple-gateway

• Ripple REST API

  • The Ripple REST API provides a simplified HTTP/JSON interface to all the Ripple protocol network operations, such as payments and other transactions.

Running the gateway bridge

        cd ../../ && forever server.js

Once the server.js is started, the deposit and outgoing processes will be running in the background.